CAMERA’s Jerusalem office today prompted a speedy correction to an ABC News story which erroneously cited Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel.
ABC’s article today entitled “Iran crackdown deepens with speedy executions and arrests” had erred in the first paragraph:
Three Iranian men were executed this week on alleged charges of collaborating with Israel, according to the Islamic Republic judiciary, bringing the total number of people put to death on similar charges during the 12-day war between Tehran and Tel Aviv to six. [Emphasis added.]
An aerial view of Israel’s Knesset in Jerusalem (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO)
ABC agreed that a correct was in order, and editors promptly amended “Tehran and Tel Aviv” to “Iran and Israel.” Notably, the shift away from naming the capital cities points to an enduring reticence to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Media outlets which previously corrected this identical error including Reuters (multiple times), New York Times, The Hill, Fox, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Deutsche Welle, CNN and Alhurra in Arabic, and NPR, among many others.